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Can anyone help me find a way to add the date/time of publishing a new record to a database inside the display title? I found a few things in the community on formatting fields and this for formatting date/time settings, but can't seem to figure out how to implement it in my field. What I would ultimately love to have happen, is for the title to auto-generate: "RR-1/29/2021-6:49a" to each record I add for that specific category, "routine reviews." I'd like this to be uniform across all entries, and these will be made by several members of my team, so I don't want to leave it to chance that everyone will format it as directed. I want these formatted this way since the…
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Hi m8s, Does anyone know how to setup the forum grid view to the guests group by default? Thanks.
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Something like this:
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It sounds like "sessions and topic view counters" are stored in Redis, however my question is if these are periodically copied back to the database? What frequency if so. Asking because inevitably services and even servers get reset. Storing in memory forever seems unlikely.
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Hello - I am hoping someone can help me here as I am not sure what is going on but my hoster says it is nothing on their end. My site was functioning perfectly until the other day - nothing has been changed in the way of add-ins or theme or anything at all from the admin side when it just decided to start throwing errors. Sometimes it stops throwing the errors and works perfectly. I either get Error 500 - Error 503 - or Exceeded Database Connections. User 'xxxxxxx' has exceeded the 'max_user_connections' resource (current value: 15) I accessed the log file at uploads/log and here is what is being CONSTANTLY WRITTEN REPETITIVELY when it is down…
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Hi, I deleted the gender field on the member profile. But for all the existing members, is it possible to hide their gender on their profiles, which appears under the number of posted messages? Thanks
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Our editors and writers (authorized users) want to add target="_blank" to their content in 4.4.x Pages articles. Was this ability removed from the CKEditor default link plugin? How can we allow our editors to do this simply? I have read about IPS using HTMLPurifier. Is there reference to this where I can see what is being filtered/allowed?
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I have a few members on my site who are showing in the admin CP as 'This member must be approved manually'. Can anyone tell me why please? I don't require administrator validation and they're not showing as spammers. Are there any other reasons for the system to ask for a manual validation? Is there any way of seeing why someone has been flagged this way? Thanks
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Is it possible to delete "our picks" or edit it and where do I add to it, I did it once but can't figure it out anymore.
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Is there a place to modify the search area of each Pages database? When hitting the gear icon in Records list, there is just Category and Has Comments. And Category doesn't have any of our categories in it...
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Hey all, I've been using Pages for a very long time, and about 5 years ago I began using it for a homebrewed classifieds section. Up until now, it's worked out really well for us, but I'm preparing to upgrade to 4.5.x and a key part of this isn't compatible. In addition to having classifieds set up in Pages, I have been using the Automation Rules app to handle the following: members at a free group level must pay a fee per ad that they want to post members at a paid subscription group level get free access to post unlimited ads automatically set an expiration date based on the publish date automatic cleanup of expired or hidden ads …
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Hey all, Using the premade block named "Members" to show a list of members has been working alright but is there anyway to, 1) Check multiple fields. Say I want to show all members of a certain group but also make sure they have the right section under a custom field I created called "Teams." For example I want to list between these 3 members, Bob - Group: Admin / Team: A Jeff - Group: Admin / Team: B Peter - Group: Admin / Team: C Right now It will list them all as they are all Admins but is there anyway to also sort it by my custom field (Team)? Using Invision Community Version: v4.5.4.2
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Thanks to suggestions from a couple people here, I have started over with a new default theme and am coloring it myself. Two questions . . . First: Is there a code that I can add to custom CSS to create a light background bar for all items in the Activity Feed? Attached is a picture showing the current look. Any new posts already have the background light color. I'd like that to appear behind the updates of updated profile pics and the like. Second: Some of the plain text links are still showing up in a light grey color. I have changed the codes in the Themes/Text editing area for links and link hover to #000000 -- but the links shown in the second attachment h…
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Again, thanks for all the help from those of you here who continue to answer my posts. Is there a code that I can add in Custom CSS to put a light-area background color behind text that is added to a Page from Pages App using the WYSIWYG Editor Block? Attached is a photo of the way it looks now, but I'd like a light-colored background to show up behind the text. Thanks.
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When writing an content using the editor for a Pages database content field, I would like to allow our editors to use a variable for the base URL so that when we move from staging/dev to prodcution, it will pickup the the change in base_url no matter what system it might be running on. Is there a way to write the variable into the Editor field so it will be picked up correctly when moved to a different host or domain? For example: Here is the link: {base_url}/our-internal database
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I've been working with a Support Ticket for over a week on an issue. Actually typed into it this morning. Just went to check, and this is what's showing. What happened?
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When a guest reports a post, how do we set it so an admin or mod will receive an email?
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I'm more than positive I'm just missing something (I've only been with Invision for a few weeks), but how do you change the order status (in progress, delayed, complete, etc.) of a client order? Is this possible from the "orders" page, or from the Admin CP? If not, is there a plugin out there anyone is using they can recommend to me? I appreciate the help!
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The default theme is so limited and none of the developer themes appear to offer anything close (that I could tell) to what you have on your site which is what sold me on Invision Community for appearance. Are we able to get the theme that Invision uses which is way more capable? Thanks, a very very long time member of Invision Community
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In the AdminCP, I've got the settings to delete all deleted content from ModCP after 30 Days. However, the ModCP Deleted Content is not being deleted and is just piling up. Attached are two screen grabs that show my AdminCP settings and the current status of the ModCP showing dates. I tried adjusting the setting in AdminCP to a shorter time, but that did not kick-start any deletion. Is there a way to fix this without having to manually delete all the deleted content? Thanks.
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Hello, Is there a way to skip this page or leave fields empty? Most of my users are looking for anonymity and asking them to provide those informations is kinda unsettling. We do not sell any physical merch, therefore there is no need for me to collect thoses infos. If that isn't possible to skip, I'll add this line : ''use a fake identity, we don't care''. Thank you bros and pros.
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Hello, All in the title. I can't find any option for this. :'- ( Thank you bros and pros.
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Hello people, I'd like to enlarge the font size in the editor. How can I do that?
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Hello, according to this guide, it's possible to configure the appearance of your emails: But I can't find this anywhere in ACP. Could someone quickly explain where I can find it? Thank you!
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Sadly, the Global Header Message App is not compatible with 4.5 -- does anyone know if this feature is now built in, or if there is a built-in alternative? Thanks.
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